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technologyreputable secondary5/26/2026

Trump cancelled an AI safety executive order after last-minute lobbying by Musk, Zuckerberg, and Sacks

Hours before a scheduled White House signing ceremony on May 21, 2026, President Trump cancelled a planned executive order that would have established a voluntary 90-day pre-launch review of frontier AI models for national security risks. The decision reportedly followed last-minute phone calls from Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and former AI advisor David Sacks, who argued it would slow U.S. competitiveness against China.

82% attribution62% veracity2 evidence